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An Interview with Michael Hardt

An Interview with Michael Hardt An Interview with Michael Hardt Historical Materialism: Can you tell us something about your intellectual and political background, and how your collaboration with Toni Negri on Empire came about? Mi ch ael H ardt : Fo r o ne’s own pa st, o ne alw ays constructs narratives. In the early 1980s, I was part of a US left youth that sought a kind of self-exportation of revolutionary energies. It seemed impossible for many of us to do politics in the US, and so Central America seemed like the only possibility. I w as Žrst working with something that we called the Sanctuary Movement, which was bringing Central Americans – Salvadorans and Guatemalans, mostly – t o t h e U S, t o c h urc h es (i t w as a c hu rc h- ba s ed movement) and have them tell their tragic stories to affect US public opinion. So, with them, I moved to Mexico City and then, out of frustration with them, went to El Salvador and got more involved with the National University in El Salvador, which seemed to me a more interesting political context. In any case, from that http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Historical Materialism Brill

An Interview with Michael Hardt

Historical Materialism , Volume 11 (3): 121 – Jan 1, 2003
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© 2003 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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1465-4466
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1569-206X
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10.1163/156920603770678337
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An Interview with Michael Hardt Historical Materialism: Can you tell us something about your intellectual and political background, and how your collaboration with Toni Negri on Empire came about? Mi ch ael H ardt : Fo r o ne’s own pa st, o ne alw ays constructs narratives. In the early 1980s, I was part of a US left youth that sought a kind of self-exportation of revolutionary energies. It seemed impossible for many of us to do politics in the US, and so Central America seemed like the only possibility. I w as Žrst working with something that we called the Sanctuary Movement, which was bringing Central Americans – Salvadorans and Guatemalans, mostly – t o t h e U S, t o c h urc h es (i t w as a c hu rc h- ba s ed movement) and have them tell their tragic stories to affect US public opinion. So, with them, I moved to Mexico City and then, out of frustration with them, went to El Salvador and got more involved with the National University in El Salvador, which seemed to me a more interesting political context. In any case, from that

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